Lead Flight OPS Portfolio Architect

Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company where diversity, equity and inclusion are shared values. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

Overview

Boeing is the world’s largest (Per Boeing LinkedIn page) aerospace company and a leading provider of commercial airplanes, defense, space, and security systems, and global services. Building on a legacy of over a century of innovation and leadership, Boeing continues to lead the way in technology and innovation, customer delivery, and investment in its people and future growth of aerospace. In India, Boeing has been a strong partner to the Indian aerospace and defense sectors for more than 75 years. People at Boeing have been supporting mission readiness and modernization of India’s defense forces, and enabling connected, safer, and smarter flying experiences, in the sky, in the seas, and in space.

Technology for today and tomorrow

The Boeing India Engineering & Technology Center (BIETC) is a 3000+ diverse engineering workforce that contributes to global aerospace growth. Our engineers deliver cutting-edge R&D, innovation, and high-quality engineering work in global markets, and leverage new-age technologies such as AI/ML, IIoT, Cloud, Model-Based Engineering, and Additive Manufacturing, shaping the future of aerospace.

People-driven culture

At Boeing, we believe creativity and innovation thrives when every employee is trusted, empowered, and has the flexibility to choose, grow, learn, and explore. We offer variable arrangements depending upon business and customer needs, and professional pursuits that offer greater flexibility in the way our people work. We also believe that collaboration, frequent team engagements, and face-to-face meetings bring diverse perspectives and thoughts – enabling every voice to be heard and every perspective to be respected.  No matter where or how our teammates work, we are committed to positively shaping people’s careers and being thoughtful about employee wellbeing.

At Boeing, we are inclusive, diverse, and transformative. 

With us, you can create and contribute to what matters most in your career, community, country, and world. Join us in powering the progress of global aerospace.

Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defense, space and security systems. We are engineers and technicians. Skilled scientists and thinkers. Bold innovators and dreamers. Join us, and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world.

Why Choose Boeing Digital Aviation (or What We Offer)

At Boeing Digital Aviation Solutions you’ll be a part of a team that creates innovative digital solutions and analytics that drive the future and evolution of Digital Aviation and enable our customers to transform the way they do business. Using agile digital technology, our solutions optimize all aspects of the flight ecosystem including safety, environmental sustainability, and efficiency – delivering value and protecting our customers and the planet.

Who We Are Looking For

The Boeing Digital Aviation Solutions (DAS) Flight OPS Portfolio Architect must have a broad technical background with experience in modernization and leading a portfolio of legacy monolithic applications to become distributed, cloud native, software solutions. The candidate needs strong technology leadership, analytical skills, teamwork, and excellent communication skills. The candidate will need to communicate at different levels in the organization to other technical personnel, business leaders and customers. This role will drive innovative, evolutionary, reliable, scalable solutions that advance flight operations, efficiency and sustainability in the aviation industry.

Position Responsibilities

• Partner with the Flight OPS Portfolio /business and technology leaders to understand the business needs that drive technology decisions.
• Create and execute a technology modernization roadmap for the Flight OPS portfolio by working closely with business, technology leadership, and other architects on execution.
• Focus on modernization of legacy, monolithic applications, and architecting innovative, greenfield applications.
• Select strategies, patterns, practices and approaches for modernizing and refactoring legacy applications and enable product teams to adopt, all while continuing development and maintenance on existing applications.
• Design applications to be adaptable, cost-optimized, cloud-native SaaS technologies in a globally distributed, multi-platform environment.
• Leverage your knowledge and experience to make technology decisions that drive innovation and agility while minimizing risks and costs.
• Ensure that Flight OPS modernization is done in compliance with the DAS Architectural Standards and Practices.
• Assist in evaluation of products for being well-architected and well-managed.
• Work closely with Information Security Office and Enterprise Cloud to ensure security standards and regulatory compliance minimum requirements are adhered to.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience)

• At least 15 years of experience in Software development and architecture in a highly regulated industry
• At least 10 years of experience working and executing with software development design patterns, methodology and life cycle
• At least 5 years of experience working with legacy technology modernization and refactoring techniques such as domain driven design (DDD), event storming, strangler fig, transitional architectures, etc.
• At least 5 years of experience bringing distributed, cloud-native, API and Microservices architecture including service orchestration into production.
• At least 5 years of experience with application performance management technologies, diagnostics, and issue resolution management
• At least 5 years of experience in development frameworks, cloud native technologies and tools, such as CI/CD pipelines, UML, Java, .Net, Docker, Kubernetes, JavaScript, AWS/Azure Cloud
• At least 5 years of experience with delivering High Availability (HA), resilient solutions that meet regulatory requirements and information security standards
• Proven experience leading a globally distributed team
• Proven experience to research, advise, compare and recommend technology solutions; ability to demonstrate and maintain method of keeping current on new technologies

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience)

• Knowledge of the Well-Architected principles
• Strong interpersonal, communication, Leadership and organization skills
• Experience with enabling an organization centric targeted to business outcomes
• Ability to inspire and lead other architects and business partners through technology transformation

Typical Education & Experience:

• Bachelor or Masters degree with over At least 15 years of experience in Software development and architecture.

Relocation:

This position does offer relocation within INDIA.

Export Control Requirements: Not an export control position

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not accept unlawful discrimination in our recruitment or employment practices on any grounds including but not limited to; color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military and veteran status, or other characteristics covered by applicable law.

We have teams in more than 65 countries, and each person plays a role in helping us become one of the world’s most innovative, diverse and inclusive companies. Applicants are encouraged to share with our recruitment team any accommodations required during the recruitment process.

Experience Level
Individual Contributor
Contingent Upon Program Award
No, this position is not contingent upon program award

Schedule
Full time